05-20-2021, 09:54 PM | #171 |
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Why didn't they get a Kia or Hyundai then?
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05-20-2021, 09:58 PM | #172 |
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I’m a fan of the Mazdas.
But, something hybrid, for a kid who has to buy gas, is pretty appealing. |
05-20-2021, 10:57 PM | #173 |
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05-21-2021, 09:00 AM | #174 |
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Hmmm. in 1974 my father gave me a Corvair
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05-21-2021, 09:06 AM | #175 |
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Ha! I think we’ve been through this before. My dad had a Corvair he loved (actually two).
I learned to drive on the family’s next car, a VW Thing. Not remotely safe in any way! Last edited by wdc330i; 05-21-2021 at 01:15 PM. |
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thanks car wise for my older sounds like my parents might get a new car and sell us their hyundai sonata. My older son is actually fired up to get a job so we will see. |
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For the first year, I borrowed my parents cars. I think I had to pay him ~$80 per month then. My mom helped pay for gas -- she gave us her Chevron card when we needed it. Although I think I probably just paid for gas at least half the time... I got a job on my 16th birthday. Made $3.75/hour (min wage was $3.35 back then), and I'd work 16-20 hours per week. A good chunk of my paycheck went to cover insurance... I was also in a co-op program my senior year of high school, and took a job at a jewelry store helping do pretty much anything -- running errands (like going to the diamond broker to pick up stones...), a little bit of sales (which had a commission), and I built them a database so they could replace paper inventory cards with a computer, and helped migrate all those cards into the PC (manual data entry -- this was 1989-1990). I think that job started at $5/hour and ended around $10/hour (I worked a couple summers in college for that store or the manager when he opened his own store a couple years later), also about 20 hours a week...
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$4.25 and hour for me, minimum ca wage, bagging groceries . Sound like my son might apply at for the same job at the same store |
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05-21-2021, 02:58 PM | #179 |
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05-21-2021, 05:08 PM | #180 |
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Unfortunately I sold it in ‘92. Maintenance was becoming costly…
Interestingly, we had the original invoice for that TLC. The original owner paid a bit over $5k for it in ‘65. Not cheap. I sold it for $3k in ‘92. Not sure what my dad paid when he bought it in ‘79 though, but it was free to me — so infinite profit!. I talked with the guy who bought it from me about a year later…. Learned that the engine seized shortly after he bought it. Apparently he had it serviced and the shop messed up something. When old TLCs went up in value, I did regret selling it a bit. But the ones with over $80k+ now have restorations that cost nearly that…
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